shame
Food for Worms
Album · Alternative · 2023
Having exorcised their fascination with post-punk on 2021’s Drunk Tank Pink, shame evolve on their third LP—with an expansive mix of anthems (“Fingers of Steel”), rippers (“Six-Pack”, “Different Person”) and ballads (“All the People”, the Phoebe Bridgers-featuring “Adderall”) that, like the Pixies before them, delivers the twists and abrasions of underground music with the straightforward warmth of classic rock. To note that they wrote most of it in a couple of weeks (and recorded it live in the studio) would sound like a corny bid for the scruffy vitality of rock ’n’ roll, were it not for the fact that you can tell.